The story
- Italian · derived fromvolteggiare
- French · borrowed fromvoltigeur
- English todayvoltigeur
Borrowed from French voltigeur, from voltiger (“to vault”), Italian volteggiare. See volt (“a tread”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
voltigeur
Today it means: One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. Full definition →
French voltigeur ← Italian volteggiare